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[[underlined]]Calabars[[/underlined]]. ^[[Fig 1]] On the coast of the Gulf of Benin, near the mouth of the Quɑrrɑ. They are marked with two [[strikethrough]]loe[[br?]][[/strikethrough]] lozange-shaped brands on the [[strikethrough]]Ba[[/strikethrough]] back & breast
Fig. 1
[[image -- two sketches, each showing two lozenge shapes, one above the other and touching at one corner. In the first, the edges are formed with dotted lines and shaded with similar.  In the second, the edges are solid lines and the interior of the top is labeled breast, while the interior of the bottom is labeled stomach.]]
[[image -- a sketch of a face with short hair, bearing scarification shaped like an arrow over each temple, with the tip of the arrow pointing towards the center and the fletching to the outside.]] Fig. 2
Eboes. Live near the preceding, at the separation of the mouths of the Quɑrrɑ. The town of Ebo is a great mart for the surrounding country. Their mark is an arrow on each temple. See Fig. 2.

The above are but a few of the [[strikethrough]]immense[[/strikethrough]] ^[[numerous]] tribes which inhabit the vast region watered by the Quorrɑ between the desert of Sahara & the coast of Guinea. Although the Ethnography of this [[strikethrough]]region[[/strikethrough]] country is in a very unsettled state, yet, as it has been, & will doubtley continue to be the theater of research to most African travellers, [[strikethrough]]I considered that any [[/strikethrough]] it was evident that any information obtained from slaves would have a very inferior value compared with the remits of their labors, & I therefore made no further [[strikethrough]]researches in this[[/strikethrough]] examination of there dialect that was necessary to [[assure?]] myself that no affinity existed between them & those of S. Africa. The only vocabulary of any length which I obtained was of the

Nɑgō or Eyō language.

The former name was that given to it by the negros. But from a comparison of its numerals with those of the Eyō, given by Balbi, & as well as from the name & position of their terms, & as I received these from the natives themselves, I am inclined to refer [[strikethrough]]these[[/strikethrough]] it to the latter people. Balbi's account of them is the following.

"Eyoe[[strikethrough]]s[[/strikethrough]] or Eyo ([[strikethrough]]practic[[/strikethrough]] ^[[spoken]]) [[strikethrough]]from Ko[[/strikethrough]] by the Eyo or Eyeo of Dabrel, who are the Hio of Bowditch, the Eyeoo of Robertson, named also Ayeots, Djabous, [[underline]]Yahoos[[/underline]], Ioes, Eyous & Ayos, a very powerful & numerous people, who inhabit the country of Hio or Eyo, said to be situated to the NE or NNE of the Kingdom of Ardrah (^[[on the]] Slave Coast). The Eyos are very warlike, & appear to be [[strikethrough]]the[/strikethrough]] at the present day, the preponderant nation in all the space which extends between ^[[the]] Ashant[[ei?]], the Congo, & the monarchies of Bello & of the [[scheik?]] of [[Bornou?]]; [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] [[notation -- five small x marks above the line]]. Nothing is known of the nature of this language which we believe to have some affinity with that of the Hibos (or Eboes)"